From an article on artdaily.org.Oral
histories, passed down through countless generations of weavers, indicate that
the motifs embody guidelines forembracing
a harmonious posture toward life.

Among the
great nomadic tribal tribes of Persia and the Caucasus, the weaving of these
hand-knotted art pieces was the sacred activity of women. Since time
immemorial, in small isolated encampments far from the workshops of Persian
cities, grandmothers, wives and
daughters -- often from the age of five or six -- worked on small portable
looms.